Queer, Coded

Brilliant artwork via Inkspiral Design. When I started writing "Hope Echoes," my novella in the upcoming Three Left Turns to Nowhere, I knew right away I wanted to include something I'd not touched on before but is intrinsically locked in my head with queerness: codes. I don't mean code-switching (though, also that) but rather actual …

Appearance: Left Bank Books, Wednesday, February 16, 7pm CT (8pm EST)

Left Bank Books, Saint Louis Hey everyone! I have news. Book news. Appearance-based book news, even. Thanks to the (incredibly rapidly approaching) release of Three Left Turns to Nowhere and the (incredibly wonderful) Left Bank Books, I get to put my mug on the internet alongside my (incredibly talented) fellow authors Jeffrey Ricker and J. …

Living a Life on Hold

Cover by the Amazing Inkspiral Design. "Hope Echoes" is the novella that rounds out the trio of novellas in Three Left Turns to Nowhere (coming out next month from Bold Strokes Books!) after Jeffrey Ricker's opening "Roadside Assistance" and J. Marshall Freeman's "Scavenger Hunt." The three novellas all take place in Hopewell, Ontario, our fictionalized …

Three Left Turns to Nowhere—Now available on NetGalley!

Three Left Turns to Nowhere will be out next month (how did that happen?) and as of today, there is a listing on NetGalley (click here to hop right there). If you don't know what NetGalley is, it's a digital ARC platform—ARCs are Advance Reader Copies, meant for reviewers so there are reviews of a …

Re: Solutions

I don't think the world needs another blog entry bemoaning 2020 and 2021, so I'm going to skip right past to the part where I try to make some sort of writing plan for 2022. Throughout 2021, I had three things in my head—one of which solidified because it's already underway—and the other two still …

Where the Hope Comes From

Every time Pride Month rolls around, I find myself thinking about—long-time readers, prepare to be unsurprised—the whole non-inheritability of queer culture thing all over again. The sheer volume of "I don't even know what I don't know" that comes to most queerlings when they realize they're different, but by virtue of the people around them, …